--- title: Hold up, did the Wasps build a comb or nah? — Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young… · tree and pragmatics description: Hold up, did the Wasps build a comb or nah? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 376 «Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the young Larks fear the reapers, but their mother says the wheat is not ready yet» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/376-pg19994-part15/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/376-pg19994-part15/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the… Hold up, did the Wasps build a comb or nah? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you, Wasps · **What happens:** hold up, build · **To what, where:** comb This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 376 «Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the young Larks fear the reapers, but their mother says the wheat is not ready yet» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/376-pg19994-part15/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:t7:1 # text = Hold up, did the Wasps build a comb or nah? 1 Hold hold VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 up up ADP RP _ 1 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 3 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 4 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Wasps Wasp PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 build build VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ _ 10 or or CCONJ CC _ 11 cc _ _ 11 nah nah INTJ UH _ 9 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold up** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | | 2 | **build** | past · do-support | the Wasps | a comb | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Product | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. ## The options {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} nah, they couldn't build a comb cos they had no wax, bro ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:t7:o1:1 # text = nah, they couldn't build a comb cos they had no wax, bro 1 nah nah INTJ UH _ 6 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 4 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 6 advmod _ _ 6 build build VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 8 comb comb NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 cos cos NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 10 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 acl:relcl _ _ 12 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 13 det _ _ 13 wax wax NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 15 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 parataxis _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **build** | could | they | a comb cos | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cos=Product | | 2 | **have** | past | they | no wax | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wax=Patient | ### Option 2 {#o2} yeah, they could ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:t7:o2:1 # text = yeah, they could 1 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} nah, they couldn't ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:t7:o3:1 # text = nah, they couldn't 1 nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 {#o4} nah, they wouldn't ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:376-pg19994-part15:t7:o4:1 # text = nah, they wouldn't 1 nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 would would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 5 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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